Nine Harvard students and recent graduates were among the 97 winners of the 1995 Andrew W. Mellon Fellowships in Humanistic Studies. The winners were named last week by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.
Of the 54 institutions providing winners, Harvard had the most. Brown was second with eight winners, followed by Berkeley with six.
In alphabetical order, the Harvard-affiliated winners are:
Kalama L. Glover' 94, Sarah E. Igo' 92, Merrill Kaplan' 94, Anne Kleinman' 93, Bernadette Meyler' 95, Anna H. More' 93, Eloise H. Pasachoff' 95, Damion Searls' 93, and Patricia K. Slatin '95.
The 1995 Mellon Fellows will receive tuition and fees for one year of graduate study as well as a stipend of $13,250.
The 1995 winners were selected from more then 800 applicants showing exceptional academic promise from a wide variety of American campuses.
The fellows include 57 women and 40 men who plan to pursue advanced study in such fields as anthropolgy, comparative literature, English, history, philosophy and art history.
Forty-nine of the winners are current college seniors; 48 graduated in earlier classes. PULITZER PRIZE
Ed School Graduate Goodwin Claims Pulitzer Prize for History
Doris Kearns Goodwin, who was awarded a doctorate from the Graduate School of Education in 1968, won the pulitzer prize for history yesterday.
Goodwin was awarded the prize for her recent book on Franklin Delano and Eleanor Roosevelt.
Goodwin is the author of "The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys" and "Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream. "She is a political analyst for "Nightline," "Today," Good Morning America" and "CBS Morning News," and has written for numerous publications about history politics and even baseball.
She contributed to Ken Burns' acclaimed PBS series last year.
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